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If it feels like you've been seeing or hearing about CNN's Jake Tapper a lot recently, it's not your imagination. Tapper has emerged front and center in the media spotlight, particularly after a testy 25-minute interview with Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday in which he told her, "Facts are stubborn things." (You can watch it in full here.) A look at coverage:

Mike Allen's Axios reports that "Republican operatives were urging at least one conservative-friendly website to write Jake Tapper hit pieces" in the wake of the interview.

Tapper appeared on Stephen Colbert's show Wednesday night, telling the host that "nobody cares" at CNN that President Trump doesn't like the network, per the Washington Post. "My job is not to be liked."

The Blaze notes that Hillary Clinton's camp didn't like him, either, as evidenced in a leaked memo.

Samantha Bee had high praise for the Conway interview. See video via Esquire.

A profile at Slate suggests that Tapper has emerged as the "ideal newsman for our age," in part because he's a "dogged reporter, a truth-seeker, kind of a d---." But it also notes that his "smugness" can "wear thin." Read it here.

The Daily Beast has an interview in which Tapper says he's politically independent, literally (as a registered Independent) and "in thought."

Tapper's facial expressions have become so famous during interviews (he insists it's unintentional) that the Washington Post has an interactive feature about them here.

Ex-Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell should have beat the $hit out of Jake Tapper when he had the chance...

Janice Archer Weaver

Feb 10, 2017 1:07 AM CST

He was all on Hillary's case when she was not on his show. He was all fact checking and proving her a lying when she was elsewhere. You let her call and proclaim she will bless them with a phone interview at 3:50 until 3:53 and he looked like he had been called into the head mistresse's office. Oh yes I know you cured cancer. Oh yes you will be Queen. Oh yes you are the Messiah!